This week’s quote comes from a 1988 press conference for the Amnesty International Human Rights Now! tour with Springsteen and his fellow performers: From the press conference: “The great challenge of...

What with the slew of early GOP candidates tossing around alleged evidence of their love for America (the rich-white-male segment of it, at any rate), it seemed timely to spotlight a Springsteen quote on patriotism,...

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Bruce Springsteen doesn’t have a whole lot of songs with colors in the title — “Red Headed Woman” and “Hey Blue Eyes” is pretty much the extent of it — but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t use the whole palette when it comes to his songwriting. In fact, color-centric imagery makes...

Sure, Bruce Springsteen touches on a lot of big themes in his music — escape, redemption, inclusion, oppression, income inequality and the search for the American Dream, to name a few — but he also plays plenty of small ball in songs about intimate human relationships. And in a lot of those he mentions the objects of...

The weekends have been a bit chilly and rainy on the East Coast of the U.S. of A. so far this summer, so beach days have been hard to come by for us 9-to-5-ers. But I finally got there yesterday, and sitting there by the water reminded me of a scene right out of the Springsteen catalog. Well, part of the Springsteen...

With the Fourth of July approaching, I can’t think of anyone better than Bruce Springsteen to provide a soundtrack for our nation’s birthday — if there’s another artist who’s given more thought to the arc of the American experience, I don’t know who it is. (Sorry, Lee Greenwood.) Of course,...

Welcome to the first installment of a new Blogness feature, “Springsteen Wit and Wisdom.” As we all know, Bruce Springsteen isn’t just a fine songwriter — he’s also an eloquent speaker on subjects such as the power of music, the value of hard work and “the distance between American reality and...

There are plenty of things I find depressing: World hunger. That James Taylor song about the seamstress. The ending of “The Champ.” But few things depress me as much as a headline like this one, that came up in my Springsteen Google Alert this weekend: “Bruce Springsteen To Release New Album In 2015.” Now,...

It’s been a long time comin’ but now it’s here … a long-overdue roundup of Springsteen-related news and links from around the Web. My apologies for the delay. • Happy Star Wars Day! I haven’t actually heard this Springsteen/Star Wars parody yet, and that may be a good thing. • The app.com pick for...

If you’re one of the many who likely passed on the expensive vinyl reissues of Bruce Springsteen’s first seven albums, but would love to cherry pick your favorite one or two, don’t forget about tomorrow’s Record Store Day event: That’s when you’ll be able to get the albums individually, although...

The results are in! With a total of 3,369 votes collected, following are the Blogness readers’ picks for the top 10 Bruce Springsteen songs of the 2000s so far (in reverse chronological order): 10) “We Take Care of Our Own” from Wrecking Ball: 89 votes (3%) 9) “Waitin’ On A Sunny Day” from The Rising: 90 votes (3%) 8) “You’re...

Well, it’s looking like it may be a while before we see another Bruce Springsteen album. (Or he could announce one tomorrow — that’s the way the man works.) But in the meantime, we’ll do what we do best: Pore over his past output in slavish fashion as we await the new stuff. With that in mind, we thought...

Editor’s note: Friend of Blogness Ellen Rothman was generous enough to share her observations from this week’s appearance by Max Weinberg at the Jewish Community Center in Newton, Mass. It sounds like a fascinating evening with lots of great insight into Max’s personal life and his relationship with the E Street...